Photos: Mardi Gras parties get wild and wacky

Of course the big Fat Tuesday celebration was in New Orleans. But there was also revelry on the French island of Martinique and in Binche, Belgium, as everyone kicked out the jams before Ash Wednesday and Lent.

Revellers take part in Mardi Gras carnival parade on February 12, 2013 in Fort-de-France on the French Caribbean island of Martinique. The carnival started on February 9, 2013 and will run until Ash Wednesday on February 13, 2013 when Vaval, a giant papier-mache figure, symbolizing the king of the carnival, is burned.